Senior Cloud Architect for Connected AEC Data & APIs

Neura Market; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a Senior Software Architect to lead cloud-native architectures for the AEC Data platform, shaping APIs, data models, and distributed systems across Revit, AutoCAD, and Autodesk Forma. This senior IC role focuses on multi-team collaboration, ADRs, and governance to enable scalable, reliable services.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, and ensure security, performance, and observability while driving architectural decisions across global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years designing cloud-native distributed systems with cross-team impact.
• Deep expertise in cloud services (ideally AWS) and API/service design.
• Strong grounding in data modeling and schema evolution (JSON Schema).
• Excellent software design and architecture skills.
• Proven ability to influence across teams without direct authority.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with a global team.

Responsibilities

• API Design & Evolution across AEC Data services with backward-compatible changes.
• System Architecture across cross-team cloud-native services and event-driven flows.
• Schema Design & Evolution for AEC domain entities and API contracts.
• Standards & Governance: ADRs, reference architectures, cross-team reviews.
• Prototyping & Feasibility studies for architectural direction.
• Mentorship & Technical Leadership for engineers and architects.
• Reliability & Performance: define SLOs and observability practices.
• Clear communication with diagrams and executive-ready narratives.

Skills

Cloud-native design

API design

Distributed systems

Leadership

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

JSON Schema

ADRs

Job description

Autodesk is seeking a Senior Software Architect to lead cloud-native architectures for the AEC Data platform, shaping APIs, data models, and distributed systems across Revit, AutoCAD, and Autodesk Forma. This senior IC role focuses on multi-team collaboration, ADRs, and governance to enable scalable, reliable services.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, and ensure security, performance, and observability while driving architectural decisions across global teams.